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Is there a difference between unaccessible and inaccessible

English Language & Usage Asked by SomeGuest on March 31, 2021

Inaccessible is more common, but it seems that unaccessible is sometime used in the same places and it is listed in some online dictionaries.

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Though listed in some dictionaries, unaccessible appears to be just an uncommon variant of inaccessible as suggested by Google Books .

Note that:

Un- is the most prolific of English prefixes, freely and widely used in Old English, where it forms more than 1,000 compounds. It underwent a mass extinction in early Middle English, but emerged with renewed vigor 16c. to form compounds with native and imported words. It disputes with Latin-derived cognate in- the right to form the negation of certain words (indigestable/undigestable, etc.), and though both might be deployed in cooperation to indicate shades of meaning (unfamous/infamous), typically they are not.

(Etymonline)

Answered by user 66974 on March 31, 2021

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